In previous posts in this series, I gave an overview of how we hire and the job advert. So, the advert’s been out for a while and we’re getting lots of interest and applications. It’s time to select some of those people for interview.

Earlier this month I gave a talk at the Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) “Cloud Computing and Life Sciences” event in Cambridge, UK. Eagle Genomics is an AWS Consulting Partner, and it’s great to be invited to speak at events like this because it..

This time last year I wrote a blog post entitled "Running a business in the cloud" describing how we at Eagle use various cloud services in the day-to-day running of our business. At the time that post was written, we hadn't been using the various..

Eagle Genomics is a growing company, and as such we need to have efficient tools that help us run our business without getting in the way. In the early days of the company we had a basic email system, a "quirky" calendaring system, and our time..

I'm a proponent of multi-factor authentication for increased security when logging in to websites and other services. In my use-cases this typically involves the use of a hardware token which generates a one-time code, or an app on my phone that..

Recently I've been writing an application which both produces and consumes data via REST. It's been a while since I've done anything like this, and of course the tools and technology have moved on. I wanted to share a couple of useful tools that..